Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The Obama administration has announced that illegal immigrants from
Central America will be able to apply for permission to bring their
children into the United States, even though the administration
indicated last year that the program would not be used for this purpose.

Last November, the State Department announced a new refugee/parole
program for children in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, for parents
who are “lawfully present” in the United States. The program was meant
as an alternative to having kids from those countries try to enter the
U.S. illegally through the southern U.S. border, as they did in droves
last year.

Nearly four months after his arrest in the disappearance of a
missing University of Virginia student, Jesse Matthew Jr. has been
indicted on a murder count in the case - but he won't face the death
penalty and still has not been charged in the death of another student.

Matthew, 33, is charged with first-degree murder and abduction with
intent to defile, Albemarle County prosecutor Denise Lunsford said
Tuesday. Hannah Graham, 18, disappeared in September and was found dead
in the county a few weeks later.

Lunsford declined to explain why Matthew was not charged with capital
murder, which would have carried a possible death sentence. The
abduction and first-degree murder charges are punishable by up to life
in prison.

"A great deal of serious thought went into this determination,
including the impact on the community, the Grahams and the need to
provide Mr. Matthew with a fair trial," Lunsford said.

Darrel Puckett, the chief prosecutor in Appomattox County, said one
of the many factors typically considered in weighing murder charges is
Virginia's automatic appeal in death penalty cases. In the 2010 case of a
mentally deranged man who killed eight people, Puckett declined to seek
the death penalty in part because of the likelihood that a conviction
would be reversed.

A father in Seminole County, Florida, is raising concerns after he
discovered a lesson on Islam in his son’s 10th-grade history textbook, a
book that is also used by school districts across the state.
In an interview with WFTV, the father, Ron Wagner, read from his son’s history book:

“There is no god, but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God.”

Wagner also claimed that students were told to “recite this prayer as
the first Pillar of Islam, off of the board at the teacher’s
instruction.”

"They were very gracious in this case," District
Attorney Vic Reynolds told Channel 2's Ross Cavitt. "They're kind,
decent, gracious kind of people and consented to this plea and were in
favor of it, so we're glad to wrap this case up for them."

Kilgore's mother told the judge the sentence would not bring closure.

“She
was very close to her sisters. I homeschooled her until middle school
so we were just a close family, and without her, life isn’t be the
same," said Rebecca Jones Kilgore.

Biologists have been puzzling over extinction events since the dawn
of science. Trying to figure out why some species went away is a natural
curiosity for those who enjoy solving puzzles. It’s why old western
towns remain tourist attractions or why people visit ancient ruins.
Stand in the Valley of the Kings and you can’t help but wonder how it
all happened. Why were these people here? Why did they do what they did?
Why did it all fall apart?

The social sciences gloss over this by asserting that the people in
the age of decline did not really think they were in decline. I’ve never
accepted that argument. I think they knew, just as we know now. We can
look at this story and see it for what it is – cultural suicide.

With the confirmed death of Kayla Mueller, new details have emerged about the American hostage’s experience in ISIS captivity, including the belief by some officials that she had been given over to a commander in the jihadi group.

"ISIS didn't see her as a hostage or a bargaining chip," a counter-terrorism official told ABC News.

"Reflections" in the limited collection of intelligence in Syria -- like
indirect indications of a person's presence somewhere, such as ISIS
fighters referring to her in calls or spotted guarding a sensitive site
where she might have been held -- indicated Kayla was still alive and
sometimes in the company of an ISIS leader being actively tracked who
had custody over her, possibly by forced marriage, officials told ABC
News.

Sometimes she was with her ISIS keeper and other times she was not, two officials said.

No tears for the newly-departed Kayla Mueller, the ISIS hostage whose
parents confirmed today that she is dead. Mueller was a Jew-hating,
anti-Israel piece of crap who worked with HAMAS and helped Palestinians
harass Israeli soldiers and block them from doing their job of keeping
Islamic terrorists out of Israel. She also worked to prevent Israel
from tearing down terrorists’ “houses,” which the Palestinian terrorists
used to smuggle weapons from and to HAMAS in order to perpetrate
terrorist attacks. And she wrote several lying, anti-Israel blog posts.

Teenagers at a California high school were publicly shamed for
disagreeing with speakers allowed to push an LGBT agenda during an
English class, according to several upset parents.

The Queer
Straight Alliance at Acalanes High School, in Lafayette, lectured
students in several ninth-grade English classes on Jan. 29 about LGBT
issues, according to Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice
Institute, which is representing the parents.

During the class,
the students, ages 14 and 15, were instructed to stand in a circle.
Then, they were grilled about their personal beliefs and their parents’
beliefs on homosexuality, PJI alleges.

“The QSA had students step
forward to demonstrate whether they believed that being gay was a choice
and whether their parents would be accepting if they came out as gay,”
PJI attorney Matthew McReynolds said. “Students who did not step forward
were ridiculed and humiliated.”

PJI is a law firm that
specializes in religious liberty cases. They are representing several
families who had children in the freshman classes -- some of whom also
are angry because there was no parental notification of the LGBT
lecture.

“Singling out students for ridicule based on their moral
or political beliefs is a Marxist tactic that should have no place in
the United States of America,” Dacus said.

The University of California, Berkeley will be hosting a lecture next week dedicated to the peculiar matter of “Queering Agriculture.”

“So why queer agriculture?” the event description opens. “This seems
like an odd question but becomes more obvious with research and
analysis.”

The lecture will be given on Feb. 10 by Bailey Kier, a Ph.D candidate
at the University of Maryland. Kier is no rookie when it comes to queer
studies, having already written a dissertation on the “queer geography
of the Potomac River Basic.”

It is difficult to explain just what it means to “queer” something.
But in essence, it amounts to re-evaluating the basic nature of a topic
from the perspective of sexuality and reproduction.

Helpfully, the event
description includes a drawing of a person of uncertain gender passionately kissing an enormous strawberry.

Confusing? Sure, but according to Kier it is also and extremely important matter.

On Monday, a majority of the Supreme Court allowed homosexual marriages
to take place in Alabama despite that state joining three others in
appealing rulings that have required states to perform and recognize
homosexual marriages despite the will of the people. What makes this
significant is that is serves as a signal that the upcoming cases on
homosexual marriage are pro forma, a farce, a charade designed to let
the rubes think they’ve been heard while the big brains on the Supreme
Court tell us what is best for us. From Justice Thomas’s dissent, joined by Justice Scalia.

..........we look at Sherman’s brutal March to the Sea that had the explicit
support of the American seat of power in Washington, District of
Criminals.
From Sherman’s Order (9 Nov 1864):

V. To army corps commanders alone is entrusted the power
to destroy mills, houses, cotton-gins, &c., and for them this
general principle is laid down: In districts and neighborhoods where the
army is unmolested no destruction of such property should be permitted;
but should guerrillas or bushwhackers molest our march, or should the
inhabitants burn bridges, obstruct roads, or otherwise manifest local
hostility, then army commanders should order and enforce a devastation
more or less relentless according to the measure of such hostility.

If anyone was going to stop Sherman, it would have been Lincoln or
Grant who didn’t necessarily support Sherman’s plan. In the end,
Lincoln telegraphed Sherman in response to the plan and said, “Go as you
propose.” There may not have been an abundance of support by volume
but by authority, certainly so. And it’s not like the murdered
Southerners mattered to Sherman as much as his desire to be the man who
brought the war to an end.

Kayla Jean Mueller, a 26-year-old American woman held by Islamic
State militants, has been confirmed dead, her parents and the Obama
administration said Tuesday.

Mueller's family received a private
message from her captors over the weekend and the information contained
in that communication was authenticated by the U.S. The White House said
the U.S. intelligence community has not been able to determine how or
when she died.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has unveiled a 42-page proposal to reform
American education at the national level, one of the clearest signs yet
that he is laying the groundwork to jump into the 2016 presidential
primary.

At the heart of his proposal is a total repudiation of Common Core,
as well as a general rollback of federal authority, increased school
choice options for parents and greater administrative freedom for
educators.

Faith stepped up to the doors of the Washington State
Legislature Saturday showing no signs of fear. No one, in fact, seemed
afraid. And no one was belligerent.

It was eerie. Faith is six years old. The Movement is well over 200.

I was surprised so many showed up. Because this event
was planned to directly confront the business end of abusive government,
the guys with guns and no morals. And
these participants, by definition, were those who had counted the cost
and were putting it all on the line against the New American Tyranny…
and its legal budget… and its politicians… and judges… and its police…
and its media.

Directly challenging the lawless diktat of
Mussolini-Virus-infected Jim Moeller (as House Speaker pro-tempore,
2013-2014), these were the patriots willing to face arrest exercising
their rights: under law, under the State Constitution, the U.S.
Constitution, and under God. Not a popular place to be in recent times.
Not even safe anymore.

Josh Peters knew what was happening the instant he heard his mother’s frantic voice.
It was around 1 a.m. on Feb. 4, and Peters, 27, was hosting an online
stream as he played a video game, “Clash of Clans.” Peters makes a
living as “Koopatroopa787,” the host of a channel on the website
Twitch.tv, where more than 50,000 gamers watch him play and interact
with him.

He had noise-canceling headphones on, so he only barely heard the
commotion upstairs, hurried footsteps to the basement, and his mom
shouting to him that the police were at the house. But Peters, who
returned from a tour of duty with the Air Force in Kuwait last November,
stayed calm and paused his stream. He knew why they were there.

Only three states — Hawaii, Vermont and Massachusetts — and the
District of Columbia have a higher percentage of self-described
political liberals than conservatives, with a larger right-of-center
mindset found in all other U.S. states.

And while Hawaii, Vermont and Massachusetts are the most liberal,
with around 30 percent of the population in each claiming to be
left-of-center (that proportion is 36 percent for Washington, D.C.), the
most conservative states are Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, with
between 46 percent and 49 percent stating that they embrace
right-of-center political ideologies, Gallup reported.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.